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From: brians@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Brian Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: need driver for Epson ES 300C scanner
Message-ID: <48350001@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com>
Date: 3 Jun 91 17:13:13 GMT
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One question about the ES-300C interface.  Are you planning on
providing a SCSI interface in the future.  One advantage that the
Epson color scanners have is the ability to transfer data using
the SCSI port.  I haven't used the Epson scanner yet but I belive
that the transfer time using the parallel port is substantial.
With SCSI one should be able to do a full color scan at 300 dpi
much faster than is currebtly possible.  Although one will still
need to have some pretty hefty disks to store these digitized
images.
 
 8 1/2 by 11 inches times 300 dpi times 300 dpi using 24 bits
per pixel is 23 MegaBytes per full page.

Hopefully your software will be able to handle such large images
in the future.  Right now I believe that an image must entirely
fit into RAM before one can perform any image-processing operations
on the data.  Is this correct?
 
   -- Brian --
 brians@hpclove.cup.hp.com